Private Life of Stalin: II

When the Soviet Union fell in 1991, Russians gained unprecedented access to the KGB archives. This documentary series, produced in 1992 by Russian filmmakers, contained film and photos that had never been seen by the public before.

WARNING: Some images are disturbing.

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News & Politics

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• Soviet
• USSR
• Stalin
• Georgia
• Gori
• Nadia
• Alliluyevna
• Beria
• Krushchev
• Koba
• Lenin
• Kirov
• Roosevelt
• Churchill
• documentary

[alphaeconomics]

You must be joking

[fredhubner]

The suspicion that he had worked as a collaborator with czar's police has always loomed over his past ... I hope this doc at least mentions Lenin's testament demanding the expulsion of Stalin from the communist party ...

[smallpotatoes989]

@fredhubner they were both psychopaths. it does not matter if Lenin or Stalin did what ever they were both power driven

[siralucard19]

While Koba was doing this, Adolf Hitler was a lil schoolboy

[Zipo6691]

@P1B1U1H1

He did attempt to liquidate entire peoples! Unfortunately these small ethnic mountain people of north east Dagestan is little known about in the west! Beria was his hench man. The thousands of peasants of siberia and the Ukraine were also systematically starved and exterminated to death too. He was a terrible, evil man.

[gopconservative78]

I didn't realize the narrator was Patrick Stewart!!!!!!

[glytzhkof]

@NightoftheShape3 - Without Stalins paranoid purges of his own military, I don't think Hitler would have gotten as far - or maybe not invaded at all. What would have happened then?

[alanheath]

Absolutely fascinating. Until now I did not take seriously the suggestion that he was a Czarist secret agent but now it makes sense.

[SFRYugo]

same like hitler...

[xander7ful]

This is an outstanding series. I did not know about his ties to the Tsarist Secret Service or his identity as Khoba (sp?). I had a suspicion that the transition from the Tsar to Bolsheviks was a sham. This just confirms it.

[99gates]

It's a little known fact that Stalin was "chronically constipated". It's not unusual for these types of people to be unstable and difficult to understand or sometimes reveal poor judgment.

[IconoclastWanderlust]

I wonder how they actually sent money in those days before Western Union and electronic funds transfer. I guess it was physically carted around.